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Relates what happens when a little boy named Sam mathches wits with several tigers that want to eat him (a retelling of Little Black Sambo)

"Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan,...

Presents selections from the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip in which Calvin creates a time machine, loses his stuffed tiger in the woods, and enjoys a visit from his Uncle Max.

Leo, a young tiger, finally blooms under the anxious eyes of his parents.

Seventeen-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger who's actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were cursed to live as tigers for eternity, and she travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all.

Penelope Rex gets a saber-toothed tiger for her first pet, but finds 'Mittens' a lot to handle.

Two tiger cub brothers are taken from the jungle to ancient Rome, where one becomes the pampered pet of Caesar's daughter and the other becomes a man-eating "entertainment act" at the Colosseum.

When August's wild behavior gets him sent outside, he imagines he is a real tiger, able to do whatever he wants, but finds that being wild has disadvantages, too.

Lyrical prose describes how a mother tigress teaches her two cubs to hunt and survive on their own. Includes sidenote tiger facts throughout.

"One rainy night, Penny and her daddy take an underground train packed with passengers. As they stand in the crowded car, Penny can't believe what she's seeing. A tiger's tail? A tiger's paw! No, that's just a person with a striped glove, assures Daddy. But when they find a seat and Penny has a clearer view, there's no mistaking the tiger's foot poking out from under a pant leg. And when this extraordinary tiger makes a sudden, marvelous leap across...